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A place for my ideas on various topics for my soon-to-be modelling

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Further thoughts on Charlton

You may remember that I was considering Charlton in South-East London as a prototype, but felt it needed to be reversed to fit my space. Further investigation shows that's not necessary, all I need to do is re-orientate it, so that the station is along the short wall of the room. I've roughed it out in XtrkCad:     Of course, Charlton doesn't have an EMU shed but I like them, so my version will have one! The four-road traverser at the bottom is four feet long, enough for 2 x 4-VEP in N-ga
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A possible prototype

For Christmas, I got the second edition of Joe Brown's London Railway Atlas and it's already heavily thumbed. Whilst browsing it recently, I cam across Charlton station. At first glance, it doesn't look particularly interesting, but cross-referencing with my copy of Quail, suggests there's much more than meets the eye. I've sketched a simple plan of the area: It has a perfect scenic break at the Woolwich end and also on the Blackheath leg *and* it has the bonus of a junction to the freight-
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An explanation

I suppose I should explain why I'm intent on modelling part of the Southern's 3rd-rail system, when it'd be far simpler to model something where all the motive power and consist were available off the shelf.   I think that most of us realise that we are influenced in our modelling by what we are familiar with, whether that's from childhood, adolescence or adulthood. I've been interested in railways since I was small, thanks to Dad who is Great Eastern to the bone.   When I was very young, we
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From elation to despair

Well, not exactly despair, but definitely an air of 'Oh damn...' After planning everything out yesterday, with the bookcases etc, I finished off by mentioning that I was going to definitely model in OO. But I don't think it's going to work.   This is a plan of the room in Sketchup:   As you can probably work out from the dimensions, to fit a workable 4mm SR layout in that space is not impossible (Paul A. Lunn has published a plan that proves it) but it won't be the kind of layout that I
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Following on...

I created a thread recently about whether I was cut out for modelling. After some very valuable responses, I think I know what my problem is. And that is that everything is a mess, from my plans to my modelling room. I am quite lucky that I have a spare room I can use for my modelling. However, it is a tip. I keep meaning to sort it out but there never seems to be the time or money. And I've had various ideas about how to tidy it up and how to sort out some baseboards. At first, I thought abou
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